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    is a crucial part of Dante’s Inferno. Throughout Canto IX, Dante analyzes three factors, which are pivotal to the Pilgrim’s journey. Virgil’s fear of the unknown reveals that divine intervention is required to enter the City of Dis. The three furies attempt to stop Dante and Virgil from entering, however, a greater power is summoned. This Messenger from God allows Dante to enter the City of Dis where Dante gains a new perspective on heresy. Throughout The Inferno, Dante the poet highlights Virgil’s

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    The Inferno The role of church during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries was extremely important especially the Roman Catholic Church. The role of church determined all facets of life culturally, politically, socially etc. According to spark notes Dante’s personal life and writings were greatly influenced by the politics of late-thirteenth-century Florence. The struggle for power in Florence was a reflection of a crisis that affected all of Italy, and, in fact, most of Europe, from the twelfth

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    VonTungeln Ms. Jonté AP Language 15 February 2024 Violence in Danté's Inferno In The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, translated by John Ciardi, violence is seen very often in the last three circles of hell. The further down in hell a person goes the more violent it gets; however, it is not the most violent at the bottom. Dante does this to show that the punishment fits the crime and the more harmful the sin, the more harmful the punishment. Dante was Catholic and Catholics believed that hell was organized in

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    In Dante’s Inferno, Dante presents the different levels of hell. According to Dante, there are nine levels in hell. It was not considered a good thing to be put in hell. You are sentenced to a hell according to your sin you committed. While he is in hell, Dante explores all the soul 's sin on Earth and the punishment he or she receives while in Hell. The first level in Hell is called Limbo. Limbo is considered a place of sorrow without torment. All the individuals who die before being baptized

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    become ignorant of a vital and possibly beneficial aspect of human nature. Both Dante’s Inferno and Shakespeare’s King Lear seek to bring attention to human suffering, illustrating our griefs and sorrows as consequences of our own agency. This pain that we inflict upon ourselves, however, can be handled in different ways that further define human suffering; each narrative profoundly explores both approaches, as Dante and Shakespeare portray suffering not only as a method of further inflicting pain to

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    see what will happen tomorrow. When you're life become successful, other people are envy and they're trying to drag you down ,especially those person have the highest position in politics or the other person who are rich. Like what happen to Edmond Dantes. Most of the time, the person have the power in politics or the one who have the ability to control other, they are the one who is abusive. Bad people does not become successful in their whole life, because they have no place in the

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    There are many similarities between Dante’s The Inferno and Virgil’s The Aeneid, be it their characterizations or descriptive imagery, but foremost in their ideas of what the afterlife consisted of. Each each epic hero in the works here have descended in to the depths of hell, with The Inferno depicting Dante’s descent into the depths of hell and with Virgil in Book VI of The Aeneid depicting Aeneas’s decent into hell. It can be argued that although different, the knowledge acquired by each character’s

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    lead to destruction. A destruction that causes into crime or may ruin one’s relationship. And this attitude is identical to what Fernand Mondego has with his best friend Edmond Dantes. Going back in the story, everything was good. The friendship between Fernand Mondego and Edmond Dantes seems valuable and so Mercedes, Dantes’ fiancée was all at well. But then sometimes, unexpected revelations came whenever you aren’t expecting it. It is quite funny to imagine that the person whom you trusted and unexpected

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    In Dante’s Inferno, there are nine circles of Hell. Dante goes through all nine circles, with his guide, Virgil, in hopes that he will make it to Heaven. In this Hell there are only four circles. This Hell is also called High School and the ultimate goal here is to go to Heaven, also called College. The four circles of High School include: the Regular students, the Honor students, the Artistic students, and the Athletic students. None of the groups are worse than the others, or lower down in High

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    The way Dante describes Satan makes the theme even more noticeable, especially when the way he describes his version of Satan is contrasted with other images of Satan. The Satan of Milton's Paradise Lost, for example, still has some of the rule and beauty he had when he was the most dominant and attractive of all the angels. He was energetic, was able to make influential speeches in hell, and able to leave Hell to lure Eve. His speechmaking has even influenced some future readers that there is something

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